[GeoStL] Re: "I've developed a fear of snakes" in forum "Geocaching Topics"
- From: "Tim and Pam" <timpam2mocachers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:32:03 -0500
Well said!
Pam and I have ran across two copper heads this year. The last one was on
the trail at Onondaga Cave State Park. It was a cool morning so I guess the
gravel on the trail had a little heat in it. He stayed while I took some
pictures then a few kicks of the gravel and he moved on into the woods. Te
first one was at Montauk State Park, we where driving down the gravel road
in the park when we noticed a small snake laying in the road. I stopped and
got out to move it off the road then I realized it was a baby copper head. I
took some pictures then took a stick and tried to get it off the road but it
didn't want to leave. After biting the stick several times it finally moved
on. We where telling the naturalist about the green tail on this baby snake
and he said it was a copper head and they use the green tail to trick
lizards. They wiggle it in front of there face and the lizards think it is a
worm and when they go to eat the worm they get ate.
Baby copper head picture: http://tinyurl.com/2tanpo
Tim
www.tueltzen.smugmug.com
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From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jack Anderson
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 9:45 PM
To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: "I've developed a fear of snakes" in forum "Geocaching
Topics"
Taken from the snakes point of view:
"OH MY GOODNESS!!! HERE COMES ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE BIG CREATURES THAT WALK
ON TWO LEGS, IF LEGS ARE WHAT THEY ARE CALLED. WHY CAN'T THEY JUST LOWER
THEMSELVES TO THE GROUND AND SLITHER ALONG LIKE WE DO? I HOPE THAT THEY
DON'T STEP ON ME, THEY WEIGH OVER 100 TIMES THE WEIGHT OF ME AND ARE OVER
100 TIMES BIGGER THAN ME AND ARE VERY HARD NOT SOFT LIKE ME. OH MY, HERE
THEY COME WHAT AM I GOING TO DO? I CAN BITE THEM TO LET THEM KNOW THAT I AM
HERE OR I CAN TRY TO SLITHER AWAY, BUT THEY MOVE SO FAST I DOUBT THAT I WILL
MAKE IT IN TIME. Oh good they saw me and stopped, maybe they won't bother
me if I can just get out of the way and find some place to hide."
Relate that to how you would feel if the Jolly Green Giant was real and
walking right towards you and you didn't know if he could see you or not way
down there.
All things were put here on earth for a reason, sometimes we just have to
get past our fears and look a little harder as to why they are here. Like,
without snakes this world could be over run with mice and rats, or moles, or
frogs, or any other type of little animals. They do their part also to even
out the world population.
I am not a snake lover just a realist and believer in the "All things for a
reason" comment above. Leave them alone and 99.999% of the time they will
gladly leave you alone. That other .001% of the time your chances are
better than 90% that it won't kill you. When you break the odds down to
that level the chances are so slim you might have a better chance of winning
the lottery. Whoops, gotta leave now and go buy my ticket.
Jack (I'm a Gryffindor not a Slytherin).
tnsl <sydstyr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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"She's afraid if she runs over it, the tire will throw the snake up under
the car and it will crawl inside"
Oh great .. something new to worry about...
Nancy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gale R. Nie"
To:
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 7:58 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: "I've developed a fear of snakes" in forum "Geocaching
Topics"
> -
> Unfortunately, some people don't care how harmless or docile a snake is.
> This woman I work with is so afraid of snakes she is irrational. She has
> her son kill any she finds in her yard while mowing the grass. And here's
> the funniest and most irrational part. If she's driving her car on the
> road and spots a snake also on the road, she stops and waits for it to
> move along. Why you say? Wouldn't she just run over it to kill it? No,
> not a chance. She's afraid if she runs over it, the tire will throw the
> snake up under the car and it will crawl inside. Yes, I'm serious. At
> least she doesn't kill the ones on the road. I've tried to talk some
> sense into her but it ain't happening.
>
> Gale
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